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An LGOC bus conductor issues a ticket to a passenger using the Aspinall ticket punch machine. The seats on the lower deck of the NS-type bus are covered with the Lozenge design moquette seating fabric.

Photographed by Topical Press, 11 Jan 1929

Image no: U5305

Inventory no: 1999/11674

20th Century London caption: In 1929 when this picture was taken, the London General Omnibus Company (L.G.O.C.) was the largest bus company in London. This conductor, an L.G.O.C. employee, has 'General' embroidered on his collar. He is issuing a ticket for the seated passenger, who is wearing a smart coat and a bowler hat. The ticket machine the conductor is using is the experimental Aspinall model that was never adopted. The bus is a number 16, which ran out of Cricklewood garage.

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